I had planned on paying for a table at our church's regular children & baby stuff market doodad, but I'm wondering whether we would actually make our money back with any allowance for our time and effort!
And then compare that to the question of the *value* of those things to my baby bro, who is planning on having kids with his wife at some point, and who might get more out of the items (clothes, toys, MCNs, etc) than the $ we'd get out of them ...
My absolute favorite things I gave away to a friend with a new little girl, but they live far away from us so that was only a box or two that went across when DH was visiting. After that, we had a table at one of the baby & child second hand markets. I went with the original venue (rather than others that have sprung up in other places since) and we used that same opportunity to sell some of the bigger items of kid/toddler furniture, prams, large baby toys, etc. All up we made nearly $500 but that ate a day of prep and several hours on the stall itself and the big $$ came from the big items, not so much the clothes. Other items we have sold gradually via the social club classifieds at DH's work (he works for a large organisation). Then there were a couple of years when I just put them in the bag to go to charity. Now, we've connected with a family with a DD who is 18 months younger than my DD so she gets the handmedowns now. But I only hand down the best & nicest things and everything else goes to charity. I have strict rules about this because we've been given handmedowns in the past that were awful and I found it really embarrassing.
Tried selling a couple of times with little success. Not worth the effort washing, sorting, labeling etc Totally frustrating watching people um and ah over a $1 hat.
If I have something particularly nice, I do like to hand those directly onto someone I know. But, these days it has to happen pretty quickly, as I just find it better to get them out of the house.
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